In September 2016, Tomy Gousset opened his first restaurant in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Ten years later, Tomy & Co has a clarity that belongs only to kitchens that know what they seek.
Some restaurants open to make a career; others open because their founder has no other way to exist. Tomy & Co belongs to the second category. In September 2016, when Tomy Gousset settled on rue Surcouf in the 7th arrondissement, he did not think in terms of market or positioning. He cooks as he thinks: with precision, curiosity and a certain reserve that is not modesty but concentration.
Ten years is a long time in Parisian dining. Addresses come and go, fashions follow one another, guides change their criteria. Tomy & Co remains on rue Surcouf, and that says something essential: a cuisine that lasts is not one that follows; it is one that builds.
The intuition of 2016
In 2016, Paris was moving from the gastronomic bistro toward something less defined and more personal. A new generation of chefs — trained in great houses but impatient for their own voice — was opening restaurants without a claimed star, without overloaded décor, without a loud promise. Tomy Gousset was among them.
Franco-Asian in its influences but Parisian in spirit, his cooking won over a clientele looking for exactly what it offered: intelligence without display, generosity without excess, a table to which one returns not from social obligation but from genuine desire.
A 10-year gift
For this anniversary, Tomy Gousset is giving “a hell of a gift” — the details remain to be discovered, which is already a promise in itself. The tenth anniversary of a restaurant such as Tomy & Co is not celebrated with noise: it is celebrated at the table, among those who have long understood what this address represents in the Parisian culinary landscape.
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